"28 mm Light Industry for a Heavy Metal World (Cross Post)" Topic

Cross posted from Sci-Fi Gallery . . .

I seem to have hit that rare patch where I'm not only productive in the painting/modeling department, but posting about it prolifically in real time. Never happens. Never.

Witness the results of never . . .

Blue insulation terrain foam makes a great sky backdrop. How cool is that?

If you want to read my obnoxious patter please feel free to stop by my the original post: Light Industry for Heavier Metals. I describe how I done did what I do here. In the voice of Morgan Freeman: "That is how The Composer do." (I'm going to lose the right to call myself that if I don't write . . . oh I don't know . . . some more music soon. But with three symphonies and a host of other stuff under my belt I hope you will permit this oddball wargamer the arrogance of his extremely strange moniker.)

Sincerely,
The Composer
(More mundanely known as David.)

Thats great David, im sure it will look even better once you have some paint on it! The piping, wiring and catwalk really
give it an industrial feel.

Make sure you get back to us after the game and let us know how it went.

I will tell everyone about the game at that. Thank you very much. My pleasure, believe me.

A small update: the chain hoist is reality now, though still in need of electrical cable . . .

I intend to rehang it in the standard industrial position (motor on top, chain on bottom) in the center of the shed, but since I work as a concert rigger, I'm much more accustomed to seeing them like that. There are a few arcane technical rigger problems with how it's hung, but it works and in reality people hang stuff (improperly) like that all the time. Will go into more and post more art in the next update . . . which can wait for another day and a little more real progress.

Glad you like it so far. It should be a neat little shed. Some machinery will help even more.

I like your Blue Foam back drop discovery Poet,
your scratch building's OK to.

C

Hey, the blue-foam backdrop is important stuff. It helps considerably that it makes a better and more easily staged sky than the paper I was using previously. I could even paint a few of them differently for different weather.

Thank you. The scratch building's got a long way to go. I'm an old hand at kitbashing, but I'm a little new to scratch-building. (I've previously mostly scratch-built in 1/2400, and not too much yet of that.) It's surprisingly fun and not too hard once you get to it, so far. Maybe my tune will change as I get a little further along. A lot to learn yet, though.

Very nice, keep it up!

Nice work.

You might want to relook at those crossbeams. I am not sure how they are supported, but it looks like they just butt up against the wall. They will take a lot of strain from supporting weight, moving the piece around, and generally being bumped by (clumsy like mine) hands reaching into your gorgeous terrain piece.

If you extend the crossbars into the walls, it will provide additional support. A few angle irons at the of the roof and floor might help, too.

Blue foam insulation? I thought it was for chromakey blue projection as visuals for backgrounds!

^Ivan DBA,

Thank you. I hope to.

^etoptheipi,

Ah yes, needing to think as though this was a real structure, because in some sense it is . . .

You are correct, they are simply butted against the walls. I could perhaps pin them in, but I suspect they'll be all right since I've ham-fistedly bumped everything a thousand times and they're holding up fine. Further, the miniature load will be spread between two of them. You are, of course, quite correct. Had I engineered this thing properly the beams should extend into pockets int he walls. (And be secured in place vertically inside the pockets with good seismic bolts.) ASME and AIA are surely not going to accredit me if I keep this up. ;-)

Let me think a little about a retrofit, but there's so much stuff glued to both beams and walls at this point that I'll get slapped with work delays and penalties if I go back. (Wait . . . I'm both client and general. Maybe that changes things a little. Hm. Have to look at the contract.) Pinning it might well be possible without any disassembly.

^capncarp

Now you're talking more photography/cinematography than I know. I'm a lowly stagehand masquerading as an entertainment electrician, but I've always worked in the kind of theatre where the only cameras are the closed circuit sort for the latecomers, management, and perhaps security. Chromakey blue projection . . . I'm a gonna have to look that up and learn me a bit and see if I can use it. I do have a projector and slides with sky on them . . . even buildings and landscapes . . .hmm . . .

Thanks for the ideas all.

Update on the machine shed:

The shed itself is essentially complete.

I still plan to finish the chain motor (or alternately "chain hoist" in a slightly different vernacular) and I'd like to populate the place with abandoned machine tools . . . but maybe looters took those before our players arrived, so we have a gameable building now, in any case. You can see a small part of my plan for it in a post entitled Showdown at the Graceful Ghost.

Also . . . 5 linear feet of fence complete to useful in one day! Howzabout that!

Here's a closeup of the front door . . .

Or without folks . . .

The fence is very much quickbuild grade. Accepted as is. Speed over detail. Could, in reality, use a little more detail and support, but it's useful as is. I can add niceties like a hasp later. Maybe. Probably. (I really do rework this stuff to fix old problems.)

If anyone is interested, the game for which all this was built has gone down in its first take. An AAR is up on my blog as Once Upon a Gilsonite Mine . . .

Here's a few of the other folks that showed up to the party:

and a few people that didn't, but could have. (Hey, the'yre 28 mm.)

Anyway, thanks for reading. Hope there's something fun there.